Word: counterattacking
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...shape, as the Parrot's Beak. Rolling across the border into the beak with captured American armor, artillery, air support*-and tactics-General Vo Nguyen Giap's 60,000-man force easily shattered Khmer Rouge defenders. Although Hanoi acknowledged that Cambodian forces had launched a broad counterattack into seven Vietnamese provinces, General Giap's forces were believed to be still in control of key border sectors and were securing their military victory through the formation of a provisional government composed of local Khmer sympathetic to Hanoi...
Clearly, the people who believe that abortion is every woman's right are in retreat. Though she speaks bravely of a political counterattack, Sarah Jane Stewart, field director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, says of last week's Congressional action: "We lost, no matter how you look at it. Congress has been intimidated by the emotional, physical presence of the right-to-lifers." Adds Robert Webber, western regional director of Planned Parenthood: "The right-to-lifers are single-issue individuals. They don't care how a politician stands on human rights or aid to education...
...that marriage is becoming chic again, Zero Population Growth, the group that worries about overcrowding the planet, has launched a pre-emptive counterattack. The November issue of the ZPG National Reporter runs a list of "exceptional" only children in an attempt to bolster the argument of some psychologists that "onlies" tend to do better in life than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley...
...industry alone has filed 14 complaints of alleged dumping?that is, selling below cost?against foreign competitors in the U.S. In all, $1.4 billion worth of imported steel is involved. Additional cases are likely to cover microwave ovens, Citizens Band radios, motorcycles and perhaps even granola from Switzerland. This counterattack is being launched with the explicit encouragement of President Carter, who seems to see an antidumping crusade as a way to protect U.S. jobs against cheap imports without violating principles of free trade. In mid-October the President promised to act vigorously on any dumping complaints that the steel...
This year Common Cause, the major oil companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined forces in a counterattack against the maritime lobby. Some recipients of past maritime contributions made a point of opposing the cargo preference bill on the roll call in order to demonstrate to their constituents that their votes were not for sale. Sensing the new mood, Speaker O'Neill decided not to pressure Democrats into supporting the Administration. The bill was "not a party issue," he said...